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Maduro Arrested, Mullahs, Military General Holt · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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  Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez powered by politweek dot
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  Speaker 1: Com and Rich.
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  Speaker 2: Valdes is with US former Christian Administration official.
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  Speaker 3: You worked for, Chris Christie. Have been follows each on
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  Speaker 3: a lot of public service stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Rich Valdez Communist now with the Washington Times.
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  Speaker 1: This is America, Richiev. You're on the air with a
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  Speaker 1: Nation Nation with the America with your host, Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 3: Happy New Year, America.
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  Speaker 4: I am Rich Valdes Valdez with an s at Rich
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  Speaker 4: Valdez on all of the social media. Welcome to twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty sixth. Blessed, happy to be here, and what a
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  Speaker 4: joy it is, man, I got so much to talk about.
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  Speaker 4: I started the new year off right on January two,
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  Speaker 4: did a live radio show for my buddy Rich Deoly
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  Speaker 4: down in Philadelphia. I will bring you an excerpt of
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  Speaker 4: an interview that I did with General Blaine Holt where
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  Speaker 4: we discussed Venezuela hours before the capture of Maduro So Yes,
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  Speaker 4: the illegitimate president, mister narco trafficker himself, Nico las Maluto
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  Speaker 4: has been captured by the United States government.
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  Speaker 3: He was brought back to the United States.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to be going to prison in Manhattan where
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  Speaker 4: they had a chapel for a while, and this is
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  Speaker 4: very exciting stuff.
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  Speaker 3: They went in there, the Marines.
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  Speaker 4: I remember there were some memes out there were people
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  Speaker 4: saying there was all sorts of things going on, right
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  Speaker 4: and there was four point five million Venezuelans and four
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  Speaker 4: thousand Marines could not take them on. El Trompito did
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  Speaker 4: his thing. He sent in the best men and women
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  Speaker 4: in the armed forces anywhere, the United States military, and
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  Speaker 4: they did what they had to do. Listen to President Trump.
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  Speaker 5: Late last night and early today, at my direction, the
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  Speaker 5: United States Armed Forces conducted an extraordinary military operation in
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  Speaker 5: the capital of Venezuela. Overwhelming American military power, air land
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  Speaker 5: and sea was used to launch spectacular assault. And it
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  Speaker 5: was a assault like people have not seen since World
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  Speaker 5: War Two. It was a force against a heavily fortified
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  Speaker 5: military fortress in the heart of Caracas to bring outlaw
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  Speaker 5: dictator Nicholas Maduro to justice. This was one of the
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  Speaker 5: most stunning, effective and powerful displays of American military might
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  Speaker 5: and competence.
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  Speaker 3: In American history. Now that wasn't all President Trump said.
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  Speaker 3: He went on.
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  Speaker 4: He talked about how the United States is going to
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  Speaker 4: maintain control and how United States oil companies are going
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  Speaker 4: to go there, invest money into their infrastructure to form
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  Speaker 4: a partnership with the Venezuelans. Right, We're gonna help them
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  Speaker 4: pump the oil. We're gonna make them some money. We're
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  Speaker 4: gonna make some money, and we're gonna have oil because
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  Speaker 4: Lord knows, we use lots of oil and.
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  Speaker 3: We need it.
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  Speaker 4: It's better we use their than we use ours. I
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  Speaker 4: think this is brilliant go ahead play to take.
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  Speaker 5: As everyone knows, the oil business in Venezuela has been
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  Speaker 5: a bus, a total bust for a long period of time.
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  Speaker 5: They were pumping almost nothing by comparison to what they
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  Speaker 5: could have been pumping and what could have taken place.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to have our very large United States oil companies,
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  Speaker 5: the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions
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  Speaker 5: of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure,
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  Speaker 5: and start making money for the country.
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  Speaker 4: And now ed trumpetos In all this, Magnus, the forty
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  Speaker 4: fifth and forty seventh president of these United States, explains
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  Speaker 4: how exactly he implements the art of the deal.
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  Speaker 3: Here check this one out.
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  Speaker 5: China and Russia well Russia when we get things straightened out.
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  Speaker 5: But in terms of other countries that want oil, we're
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  Speaker 5: in the oil. We're going to sell it to him.
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  Speaker 5: We're not gonna say we're not going to go for it.
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  Speaker 5: In the other words, we'll be selling oil, probably in
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  Speaker 5: much larger doses because they couldn't produce very much because
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  Speaker 5: their infrastructure was so bad. So we'll be selling large
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  Speaker 5: amounts of oil to other countries, many of whom are
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  Speaker 5: using it now, but I would say many.
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  Speaker 3: More will come.
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  Speaker 4: Absolute brilliance. Listen, I think El Trompito. And again some
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  Speaker 4: will say, oh, you're just a fan of Trump's. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: I'm a fan of Trump's because look at what he does,
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  Speaker 4: a big show of military might. We had the ability
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  Speaker 4: zero war, zero war. I think zero casualties. Think one
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  Speaker 4: person may have been shot. We got the objective done.
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  Speaker 4: Madudo is in custody, his wife is in custody. They
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  Speaker 4: haven't harmed a hair on his head, so we could
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  Speaker 4: still get some information out of him. We've got control
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  Speaker 4: of the oil. The Venezuelans are jumping up and down,
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  Speaker 4: cheering in the name of Trump. Listen to this sounds
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  Speaker 4: like a win to me.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, now, come celebrate with us.
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  Speaker 4: We love everybody because America has loft us so much,
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  Speaker 4: so much. Thank you America, aig, thank you, thank you
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  Speaker 4: so much for sharing those sentiments. Guys, this is something
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  Speaker 4: that's local ten news in Miami, by the way, and
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  Speaker 4: the Venezuelans are all over the streets. They're all over
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  Speaker 4: the streets proudly thanking President Trump. Many they're making videos
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  Speaker 4: all over the place social media, on the news, crying
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  Speaker 4: tears in their eyes because they are so happy that
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  Speaker 4: they have the ability to be free once again. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: this is really quite remarkable. Right here's a chant of
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  Speaker 4: the government of Maduro will fall.
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  Speaker 3: Check this out.
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  Speaker 4: Are you talking about thousands and thousands of people in
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  Speaker 4: the streets in Karaka's Venezuela, thousands and thousands of the
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  Speaker 4: people in the streets in Chile, thousands of people in
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  Speaker 4: the streets all over the place in Latin America celebrating
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  Speaker 4: in Miami, flooding the streets, wrapping themselves in the Venezuelan flag,
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  Speaker 4: thanking Trump. Yet here in America, the critics can't wait, right,
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  Speaker 4: the critics can't wait to say he didn't do enough,
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  Speaker 4: He hasn't done enough. He's a war criminal, he went
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  Speaker 4: there illegally. Imagine this millions of people, or as Trump
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  Speaker 4: would say, millions and millions of people, right, Imagine that
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  Speaker 4: millions and millions of people, and they they are thrilled
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  Speaker 4: thanking the United States. But yet Americans typically white liberals,
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  Speaker 4: not to be racist or anything. I'm just pointing it out.
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  Speaker 4: White liberals that work in the media or the government
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  Speaker 4: in particular, or academia. They're the ones that are saying, oh, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: Trump is a criminal. Trump sounds stupid. Trump is unintelligent.
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  Speaker 4: How dare he say those words?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 4: We are putting form over function here, folks. This is
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  Speaker 4: incredible for our country. The environmentalists are gonna cry they
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  Speaker 4: don't care about these Venezuelans. Now, I understand. Trump is
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  Speaker 4: not a priest. He's not a saint. He's not a pastor.
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  Speaker 4: He's not a missionary. He's not Mother Teresa, he's not
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  Speaker 4: on a retreat. He's here to position America for success,
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  Speaker 4: for dominance. That is what it takes to be leader
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  Speaker 4: of the free world. He didn't make it up. He
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  Speaker 4: just happens to do it really well. And people don't
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  Speaker 4: like to see how the sausage is made I get
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  Speaker 4: that the United States being in partnership with Venezuela basically saying, look,
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  Speaker 4: you guys have the oil, We're gonna invest billions in
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  Speaker 4: this refinery.
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  Speaker 3: Same thing we do it with all the drugs we create.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't mean like you know, fentonel and all
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  Speaker 4: that I'm talking about, you know ozembic and all the
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  Speaker 4: things that are you know, flying off the shelves that
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  Speaker 4: people like that helping people. We used to have a
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  Speaker 4: thing called AIDS. Now there's all these antiviral medicines. People
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  Speaker 4: don't even have AIDS anymore, or it's undetectable. I'm talking
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  Speaker 4: about that stuff. They make their money back, right, They
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  Speaker 4: put all the research and developments into things, and then
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  Speaker 4: they go ahead and they sell it and moss all
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  Speaker 4: over the world. And President Trump just said it, we
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  Speaker 4: are going to sell this oil to whomever needs it.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 4: The Venezuelans, because they're of their communist tendencies, have been
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  Speaker 4: selling to Russia, have been selling to China and in
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  Speaker 4: particular Cuba at very very cheap rates. How will Cuba continue?
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  Speaker 4: They can barely put their lights on now, and I'm serious.
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  Speaker 4: They have lights half the day and it's not the
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  Speaker 4: half that's that night. At night it's pitch black in
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  Speaker 4: most places, thirteen twelve to thirteen hours a day. You
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  Speaker 4: can get electricity. The rest of it it's a blackout,
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  Speaker 4: so they turn off the lights at night, no electricity.
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  Speaker 4: They can barely function with half of the energy they have. Now,
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  Speaker 4: imagine now when they can't get oil. Of course, someone's
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  Speaker 4: going to say, but rich, how could you do that
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  Speaker 4: to people? No, no, no, they can buy oil from
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  Speaker 4: whoever they want. They just can't buy it from Venezuela.
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  Speaker 4: They can now buy it from the United States. It
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  Speaker 4: since we have an embargo, they probably won't buy from US,
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  Speaker 4: and like you know, the same way, we won't sell
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  Speaker 4: to them.
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  Speaker 3: Got it.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't mean they can't buy from Russia or China.
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  Speaker 4: They can, but there might be a sanction on those two.
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  Speaker 4: So they might just have to pay fair market value
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  Speaker 4: like everybody else, like you do every time you fill
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  Speaker 4: up to heat your home, like you do every time
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  Speaker 4: you buy gas for your car. That's just the name
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  Speaker 4: of the game and why you got to drown out
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  Speaker 4: these regimes so that you have legitimate people that give
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  Speaker 4: their people a chance. There's a reason these people are
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  Speaker 4: dancing in the streets. Why aren't the Democrats dancing in
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  Speaker 4: the streets. Why aren't the liberals dancing in the streets.
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  Speaker 4: Why aren't the people at CNN saying, wow, President Trump,
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  Speaker 4: we may not like him, but he did a good
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  Speaker 4: job today. No, instead they're saying he's a war criminal.
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  Speaker 4: Instead they're saying he's unconstitutional, that he's not allowed to
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  Speaker 4: do anything. I'm gonna tell you this, and Trump has
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  Speaker 4: done more in this second term than I've seen ever
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  Speaker 4: in my life. Honestly, Oh, what do you mean, rich,
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  Speaker 4: I haven't seen anything. My insurance, my health insurance just
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  Speaker 4: went up, precisely, that's part of stopping this Opamacare stuff
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  Speaker 4: and putting the country into more death than it can handle.
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  Speaker 3: But we've seen the big beautiful bill, Oh, you and
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  Speaker 3: your big beautiful bill.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, precisely, the big beautiful bill making sure that Americans
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  Speaker 4: have tax cuts forever that are codified into law. This
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  Speaker 4: is a big deal. Not to mention what he's doing
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  Speaker 4: is constitutional. Presidents are allowed to make war. You've got
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  Speaker 4: over one hundred examples since the beginning of this wonderful republic.
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  Speaker 4: As I was reminded by the great one Mark Levin
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  Speaker 4: that's true. That's just a matter of the historical record.
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  Speaker 4: And of course we took out Manuel Noriega from Panama
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  Speaker 4: and now we're doing it here and we may have
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  Speaker 4: to do it again. Right, Watch out, Gustavo Petro, Watch out.
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  Speaker 4: But the real issue here is you're always going to
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  Speaker 4: have some Republicans like Representative Massy or Representative Green that
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  Speaker 4: are Republicans and they don't like what's happening. They're going
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  Speaker 4: to say it's unconstitutional. That is their right, and that
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  Speaker 4: is why we have Congress, and that's why we debate,
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  Speaker 4: That's why we have courts that need be And guess what,
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  Speaker 4: Trump usually fares well in those situations because he's not
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  Speaker 4: the tyrant, the dictator, the unintelligent, stupid person that doesn't
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  Speaker 4: know how to talk Orange Man bad El Dorido. Instead,
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  Speaker 4: I say he's a guy that dodged a bullet, he
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  Speaker 4: dodged prison time, he dodged bankruptcy, and went from being
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  Speaker 4: a multimillionaire to becoming a billionaire and happened to become president,
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  Speaker 4: not once but twice. That's not something stupid people do. Anyway,
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  Speaker 4: I got a lot more to discuss. We got to
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  Speaker 4: do a little Nick Shirley conversation. We also have General
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  Speaker 4: Blaine Holt, who joined me hours before this strike to
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  Speaker 4: tell me that this was imminent, that this was going
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  Speaker 4: to happen, and I pushed back, saying, listen, General, I
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  Speaker 4: don't believe any of that stuff is going to happen
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  Speaker 4: unless we go in there. The General believed that the
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  Speaker 4: pressure campaign was right. I think he knew more than
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  Speaker 4: he was letting on and was giving me a wink
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  Speaker 4: wink and a nod nod. You listen to our conversation
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  Speaker 4: with former Deputy NATO Representative United States General Blaine Holt
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  Speaker 4: from the US Air Force retired, and you tell me
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  Speaker 4: what you think from our conversation. That's coming up in
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  Speaker 4: the next segment, and we go deep. We also talk
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  Speaker 4: about i Ron and that all happened on Friday, the
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  Speaker 4: second of January. I'm doing a little quick addition here
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  Speaker 4: on Saturday, and I don't typically work on Saturdays, but
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  Speaker 4: when I saw this stuff happening Friday night into Saturday morning,
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  Speaker 4: I said, man, I've got to do a little addendum
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  Speaker 4: here and tack this on to the beginning of the
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  Speaker 4: show before it goes out to you guys. So I'm
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  Speaker 4: glad I had the opportunity to do that. I'm glad
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  Speaker 4: to be back. Happy New Year. We got our video.
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  Speaker 3: Stuff coming out in a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 3: And we've had some great conversations so far.
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  Speaker 4: About Zorammbani being born in first Muslim, first Socialist. I'm
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  Speaker 4: one of the youngest in aocs's generations to take the
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  Speaker 4: office of mayor, and it is very interesting to me
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  Speaker 4: that we are in this position that we're in right now. Earlier,
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  Speaker 4: I mentioned how I once did a fill in for
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  Speaker 4: the great one Mark Levin, who's another radio mentor of
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  Speaker 4: mine who I worked for for many years as mister
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  Speaker 4: Kall Screener, Richiev mister Kallscreener. And I can tell you
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  Speaker 4: that I did this monologue once where I said, just
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  Speaker 4: imagine an inauguration day where as far as the eye
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  Speaker 4: can see, it's AOC's and Bernie Sanders right, socialists everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: And that literally happened yesterday in New York City. So
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  Speaker 4: New York has fallen. Now does it fall forever?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Will it be the end of everything?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: My thinking is that there is a big push towards
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  Speaker 4: socialism and it's coming from multiple perspectives.
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  Speaker 1: This is America, This is a Maria.
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  Speaker 3: President Donalte Trump, mister President, welcome to the program, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything. I
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  Speaker 5: know you very well and I have I listened, but
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  Speaker 5: I have a lot of people that listen and they
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  Speaker 5: love your show and I appreciate it very much.
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  Speaker 4: The other day on my podcast This is America, Rich Faldes,
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  Speaker 4: I played a clip of Elon Musk speaking at the
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  Speaker 4: Saudi American Investment Summit that recently occurred, when the Saudi
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  Speaker 4: Prince came here and they pledged to give a bunch
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  Speaker 4: of money to President Trump, who I like to call
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  Speaker 4: donaldus Magnus El Trompito, the forty fifth to forty seventh
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  Speaker 4: president of these United States. When l Trumpito secured this
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  Speaker 4: huge investment from the Saudis. They had this big summit,
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  Speaker 4: and in that summit, Elon Musk went on to tell
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  Speaker 4: the interviewer that AI and the robots that are associated
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  Speaker 4: with AI, AI powered robots are largely going to replace
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  Speaker 4: a lot of jobs, and we're going to have too
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  Speaker 4: many people, so we're going to have to go on
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  Speaker 4: a universal basic income type of program. But he was
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  Speaker 4: thinking more of something high end, like paying people a
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  Speaker 4: lot of money. I don't know, seventy five K, one
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  Speaker 4: hundred K, maybe one hundred and fifty, who knows what
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  Speaker 4: the number is. Because you know, it's not easy to
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  Speaker 4: live in a lot of parts of this country. And
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  Speaker 4: if you don't want to have mass migration, right everybody
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  Speaker 4: moving to Florida. We saw what that did right after COVID. Now,
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  Speaker 4: Florida is just about as expensive as anywhere in New
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  Speaker 4: York for the most part, minus the ability to get
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  Speaker 4: work everywhere. They don't have work everywhere, so it's kind
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  Speaker 4: of like, all right, you get that Florida living price
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  Speaker 4: which is slightly lower still, and if you can get
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  Speaker 4: New York money and live out there, then you're golden.
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  Speaker 4: But otherwise people are moving you know, from North Jersey
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  Speaker 4: to South Jersey, from the Five Boroughs to North Jersey,
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  Speaker 4: from South Jersey maybe into pennsylvani like my brother is
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  Speaker 4: out in the Poconos. Since when did we sign up
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  Speaker 4: as conservatives? At least I consider myself a conservative. When
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  Speaker 4: did we sign up to say, you know what, I
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  Speaker 4: want universal basically income. But when the Democrats do it,
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  Speaker 4: it's one thousand bucks a month. I want it to
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  Speaker 4: be fifteen k or ten or twelve. How about I
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  Speaker 4: don't want the government in my life. I don't want
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  Speaker 4: the government being responsible for me. I want to do
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  Speaker 4: what I got to do. I want to create my
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  Speaker 4: own wealth. Let's have the government get out of the way.
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  Speaker 4: When did that stop being a thing?
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  Speaker 3: Somebody let me know?
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  Speaker 4: Because apparently Elon Musk, who I'm going to you go
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  Speaker 4: on a limb and say, is probably one of the
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  Speaker 4: greatest capitalists of our time, just because he's amassed so
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  Speaker 4: much wealth and he's so innovative and understands the system
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  Speaker 4: so well.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think he's a crazy lefty. I think that
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  Speaker 3: he really believes that this is where we need to go.
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  Speaker 4: Now, you combine that with the pragmatism and forward thinking
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  Speaker 4: of beetled and all this magnus to forty fifth to
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  Speaker 4: forty seventh president of these United States.
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  Speaker 3: And yes, I have to say it like that. It's
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  Speaker 3: for dramatic effect.
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  Speaker 4: Who says that we have to change the way everything's
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  Speaker 4: working and use tariff money to give it back to
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  Speaker 4: the people. Now that's not tax dollars per se, although
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  Speaker 4: you could call a tariff attax if you will. But
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  Speaker 4: whomever wants to use foreign items is going to have
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  Speaker 4: to pay this tax, and those tariff taxes will be
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  Speaker 4: then distributed to people. And he had this huge number
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  Speaker 4: the other day right that he was.
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  Speaker 3: Saying, you know, so far in America, we brought in X,
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  Speaker 3: Y and Z, and I love it. I think it's great.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: I'm not I am against tariffs when they when they
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: are not used the way he's using them. Right, if
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: they're used as a blanket across the board thing where
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: they're not used strategically, where you don't pay attention, he's
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: paying attention. It's like driving fast. I'm not a fan
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: of driving fast, but I am a fan of driving fast.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: If you a have experienced doing it, then you're on
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: a highway. You know, if you're going to try and
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: do sevent dy on a side street and a local neighborhood.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: Not a good idea, right, So same thing with tariffs.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: I think with tariffs you've got to be able to
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: use them strategically to get the other parties involved, i e.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: Foreign governments, trading partners to bend to your will. But
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: if you're not right period the end, that's the easiest
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: way to use them. And that's working out well. And
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: we've got all this money sitting in the treasury and
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: that's great, and I think dividend checks are going to
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: go out right before the midterms, which is a great idea.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: But if that continues, and we don't end our dependence
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: on foreign goods, and we want to continue to go
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: in that direction, then where does that put us? Will
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: we continue to amass wealth by the cost associated with
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: people who can't break their addiction to foreign goods or
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: who can't not right in certain instances, have to get
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: certain things that we don't produce here. Right, we don't
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: grow a ton of avocados in the United States, but
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: we well I should rephrase that in the continental United States.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: In Puerto Rico, they do grow a ton of avocados.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Which they sell all over the world except the continental
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: United States.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Now, I know you're asking why.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: You're wondering, well, why wouldn't we take an avocado from
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Puerto Rico and sell it in Florida. Well, there's something
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: called the Jones Act, and it's pretty stupid in my opinion,
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: But that's why we buy avocados from Mexico. Now, some
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: might argue that the Mexican avocado's better somehow, I would not.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: I would I would make the bigger argument of saying, ay,
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: this was a political ploy to get people that were
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: involved in shipping transportation to have a seat at the
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: table and have control. So we're making sure that you know,
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: the Jones Act is in place so we can get
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: our money. And Nope, nothing's coming out that island if
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: it's not going on one of our ships. And it's
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: got to go here and there the other way. And
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: it's a very convoluted system. And there's a lawsuit right
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: now from the Pacific Legal Foundation that is challenging it.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Because you've got a I think he's a I don't
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: want to say rum or. I think it might be
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: whiskey or bourbon. Probably whiskey or vodka. I don't know,
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: forgive me, but there's a guy making a premium alcohol
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: in Hawaii and he's got a lot of customers in
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: the Philippines, and when he ships it out to the Philippines,
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: it has to go to California first because of the
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Jones Act, and it's making it very difficult for him
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: to turn a profit and extraordinarily expensive and slowing down
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: his ability to distribute the product, which could easily go
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: right from Hawaii to the Philippines. But because it's got
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: to go to the US first on a US ship
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: and pay all that that money that has to go
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: in between California and Hawaii, he's got to eat that,
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: and so does the customer. So anyway, that's the basis
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: of the case, is that that is a violation of
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: the Constitution and violates the Commerce claus And if they win,
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: there won't be a Jones Act and we'll have Puerto
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Rican avocados and they'll be cheaper than they are right now.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: But I'm digressing right.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: The point I'm making is the larger point that I
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: think it's a good idea to discourage foreign dependence and
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: to encourage domestic production.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: And that's the whole goal here.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: The goal here is to get Toyota to say, yeah,
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: we're going to build those cars here, to get Hyundai
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: to say, yeah, we're going to build a plant here
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: like many of them have, and to expand their footprint
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: in America, in the United States.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: So that's a win.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: That makes sense, that seems conservative and capitalists in my opinion, right,
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: or at least it's the free market working. What doesn't
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: seem like the free market working is taking the god
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: given ingenuity that people have and harnessing that to make
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: robots that are going to replace us, make us unemployed,
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: and then we're gonna turn around and look at the
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: government for a handout because we can't work anymore unless
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: we're plumbers, and no slide on plumbers. Just I happen
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: not to be one. So that's really the question. And
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: while all that's happening domestically, excuse me, there's a ton
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: of stuff going on internationally. Right there's unrest in Iran,
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: with the Iranians always up to something else. There is
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: the back and forth that seems to really not be
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: much of a back and forth with Russia and Ukraine,
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: and it makes me wonder, where do we go from here?
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: What is our next step? There was all this talk
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: about leaving NATO. NATO SI, we're going to cough up
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: more cash. Great, we've got this new revelation that we
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: see coming out of Minnesota where all this fraud is happening.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: And the report we heard earlier that goes back to
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: twenty thirteen and was echoed in twenty eighteen.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: It's the morning of March fifteen. We're chasing a tip
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: about a man who's leaving the country. Our sources tell
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: us he just took a carry on bag through security
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: that was packed with a million dollars cash. You can
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: do that as long as you fill out one of
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: these government forms. We're told. These cloak and daggerlike scenarios
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: now happen almost weekly at MSP International. The money is
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: usually headed to the Middle East, Dubai and points beyond.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Our sources say last year alone, more than a one
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: hundred million dollars cash left MSP in carry on luggage.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: But wait, there's more.
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: What we were interested in is where it was going.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: The national go to expert on what's behind these mysterious
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: money transfers is Glenn Kerns. He's a former Seattle Police
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: detective who spent fifteen years on the FBI's Joint Terrorism
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Task Force until his retirement.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: It's an outright crime.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: It's unbelievable.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Kerns tracked millions of dollars in cash that was leaving
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: on flights from Seattle. It was coming from howalas businesses
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: used to coury your money to countries that have no
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: official banking system hawalas.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: That's what they're called in Somalia, a hawala. They defraud
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: the local government and send it to a shell company
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: in Somalia hawala.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Some immigrant communities rely on houalas to send funds to
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: help impoverished relatives back home. Kerns discovered some of the
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: money was being funneled to a hawala in a region
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: of Somalia that's controlled by the Al Schebab terrorist group.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Okay, so the money is sent to impoverish people. No, no, no,
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: it's actually going to Al Shabab error network. Okay, now,
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: mind you this report again from twenty eighteen, and they're
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: referencing stuff that happened in twenty thirteen.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Pay attention.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: How could they possibly come up with such big bucks
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: to transfer back home?
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: We had sources that told us it's all about the
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: it's welfare fraud, it's all about the daycare.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: To better understand the connection between daycare fraud and the
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: surge and carry on cash, you have to look at
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: the history of this crime. Five years ago, the Fox
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: nine investigators were first to report that daycare fraud was
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: on the rise here in Minnesota. We exposed how some
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: businesses were gaming the system to steal millions in government
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: subsidies meant to help low income families with their childcare expenses.
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: It's a great way to make some money.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I think it's kind of that informal word of mouth.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: In order for the scheme to work, the daycare centers
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: need to sign up low income families that quality for
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: childcare assistance funding. These surveillance videos are from a case
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: prosecuted by Hennepin County.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: Now you'll see people going into the facility, four or
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: five adults with one or two little kids, and then
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: they come right out. But he'll explain that.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: They show parents checking their kids into a center, only
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: to leave with them a few minutes later. Sometimes no
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: children would show up, but either way, the center would
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: bill the state for a full day of childcare.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: That cash, cold hard cash was being extracted by way
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: of the airport and people were getting stopped for having
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: a million dollars in cash on flights to Somalia. Now
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: this is not tinfoil hat conspiracy stuff. This is Fox
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: nine and Minnesota reporting this right in depth reporting. So
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: again I beg the question, you can't always have this
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: domestic policy without having the international component, because it's real.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: We are funneling money out of the United States through
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: these daycare programs, seemingly into the hands of al Shabab,
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: a terror organization that represents the Islamic state. We're seeing
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Christians being slaughtered all over Nigeria, with some reprieve there
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: after President Trump. Trump launched a strike on Christmas Eve
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: Christmas Day in the morning. Thank God for that. America
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: First means America first all over the world, not America only.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: I say that because it's important that we never forget
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: the importance of having America be the geopolitical leader of
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: the world. It's important that we have that leadership position
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: because if you're not number one, guess what, you're number two?
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: If you're lucky, and nobody really competes in global dominance.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: Right when it comes to power, nobody's looking to be
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: number three, nobody looking to be number two. At least
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: the United States should never be looking to be number
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: three or number two. So I want to get to
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: all of that stuff, plus your calls, mister Oto, I
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: understand we have someone on hold.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Is that accurate? All right? Let us go.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: What's the city. Let's go to Delaware. I love Delaware
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: except when Biden's involved. Let's go to Phil. Phil, you're
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: on with Rich Valdez.
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: Al right ahead, Happy New Year, and you are a
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: refreshing addition to the team.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Thank you your so far. I appreciate that.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: Well.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: You know, I cut my teeth on talk radio in
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: New York City.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: But immediately, like days after I did my first radio
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: show in New York City, I was on the air
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: on WPHD doing Sunday nights following like replays of Dom Jordana.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: So I I have a lot of experience at WPHD
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: as well, and I love you guys in Philly.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: What's on your mind tonight, Phil, Well.
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: Couple things, something that shouldn't surprise you at all. I'm
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: a curier, so I'm in different states every day, and
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: one particular time about four months months ago, I was
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: in Brooklyn and was eating at a corner little fast
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: food Filipino place, and there were a bunch of college
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: students with Mondamie buttons On and I struck up a
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: conversation and they basically were brought in to do canvassing
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: for the Mondami team. So I questioned him, I said,
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: do you know anything about him? Do you know where
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: he's from? Well, his ideals are good, and I think
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: they'll be good for New York. I said, well, can
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: any one of you tell me any details about his history,
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: about where he's at, where he's headed to. They didn't
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: have a clue, and I I just feel that New
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: York bought into something that wasn't true, and every day,
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: even before his taking the oath on Kuran's, which I
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: don't know how kosher that is, but you're.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: I said, quite technically, I don't think it's kosher at
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: all now.
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: But it's interesting them and Omar and the others took
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: an oath to defend and support the Constitution and America,
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: but they're not doing it. I don't understand why there's
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: not more prosecution and the push to basically get them
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: out of office. They're not upholding their oaths for office.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: On that front, that's a political issue, right, it's not
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: a crime. And the political remedy to that is impeachment.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: And before you get to impeachment, people are always going
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: to say, well, the reason we elect them to two
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: year terms of office is because, you know, should they
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: not meet the standard that the people that they're supposed
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: to represent expect, then they'll be voted out. And yet
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: she wins time and again, right because of jerry mandering,
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: because of the Democrat political machines that have been established
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: in so many places. So I understand your frustration, and listen,
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: I join you in it. Think that we have a
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: grand problem on our hand. And when you say New
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: York City brought into something, I'm going to say, it's
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: not only New York City that's brought into this. It's
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: the Democrat Party. It's a large segment of our country
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: that's brought into this idea for a long time already, right,
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: And it starts with, you know, the early nineteen hundreds
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: and organized labor.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Right now, there's a lot of studies from them from
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: that side, from the Marxists. To go to Marxist dot org.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: You can read their studies on how they planned in
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: the early nineteen hundreds to take over a political party
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: and the political establishment in the United States by doing
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: it through organized.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Labor, through labor units. And what's the site, Oh, Marxist
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: dot org. It's their website, gotcha.
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: And you know what's interesting, This is why I missed WWDB.
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: But it's refreshing because the station and you're on now
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: is like a buffet.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: Who doesn't love a good buffet?
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and you take what you want. But like they've
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: said over and over again, they're in no hurry. If
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: it takes ten years, twenty years, thirty years to reach
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: the goal that they're trying to achieve, don't sit back.
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: They're not in any big hurry.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Now you mentioned WWDB A quick tidbit on that.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: That was the station that Bob Grant was on, and
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: Bob Grant is the mentor to two of my mentors,
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: both Mark Levin and Curtis Liwa.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: So small world. Yeah, get off firefol you're skunk. Go ahead.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: No.
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: I was going to say it was the best of
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: its time and it really shocked that it went off
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: the air.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, you know, listen, I try to tell people
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: this as often as I can. Radio is a beautiful
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: medium that I don't think will ever ever go away. However,
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: people listening to audio, that habit of listening to audio
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: and or music will change and evolve with the adaptations
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: of technology. So it doesn't mean radio disappears. It'll always
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: be in cars and these antennas and these towers are fantastic.
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: But many people, myself included, do a lot of streaming,
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: and streaming is a very productive way to listen to
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: a show like The Rich The Only Show. For example,
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: if you're enjoying the show right now, but you're getting
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: home from work your short commute twenty six minutes, you're
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: pulling into your driveway and you're like, you know, I
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: love this guy Valdez. He's great. I hope they bring
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: him back again. I don't want to stop listening until
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: the commercial comes. Well, guess what if you were streaming this,
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: you just play it on your phone, go inside, and
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: while I you keep listening and hook it up to
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: your Bluetooth in your house, you're Alexa speaker and you
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: have a seamless transition from the car to the house
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: listening to live radio, all without ever using the terrestrial
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: radio network.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of that happening.
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: And you're a million percent right Because of my traveling
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: in all the way from Alexander, Virginia to Stamford, Connecticut.
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: I stream on my phone.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Right because you can't catch the same station between one
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: spot and the next.
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: Nope. So you're a million percent right. But real quick,
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: I'll leave you with I was online and there was
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: a real playing this lunatic woman said the TSA made
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: her remove her headpiece. She's Islamic. And it was Trump's fault,
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: the weather up in Oregon, Trump's fault. I could jump
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: at himself morning, Trump's fault.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: I love it, Phil, Thank you for the call, brother.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: I appreciate it. I appreciate the conversation. Anybody else that's
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: out there that wants to take me on, I'm game
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: for it.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: I am Rich Valt. Don't go anywhere.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: This is America. This is America.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: He's got the best head of hair and podcasting This
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: is America with Rich Valdeniz.
• 35:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah, this morning. President Trump is now weighing in on
• 35:15
  Speaker 8: those protests, posting if Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters,
• 35:19
  Speaker 8: which is their custom, the United States of America will
• 35:22
  Speaker 8: come to their rescue, adding that the US is locked
• 35:25
  Speaker 8: and loaded and ready to go. A top Iranian security
• 35:28
  Speaker 8: official then warning that American interference would lead to the
• 35:31
  Speaker 8: destruction of American interests. Now, it's been nearly a week
• 35:34
  Speaker 8: of countrywide protests in Iran, and while they started over
• 35:38
  Speaker 8: the economic crisis partly caused by sanctions imposed by the
• 35:41
  Speaker 8: UN and US, they've now spread in scope, with some
• 35:44
  Speaker 8: university protesters shouting slogans like death to the dictator.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this trouble in Iran, right, a little a little
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: turmoil in Tehran, and.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: I'm going to get to the bottom of this. Welcome back.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: I am Rich Valdez, Valdez with an that's at Rich
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: Valdeta on all of the social media, liberty loving Latino amigo,
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: keeping you company this Friday afternoon drive home and I
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: want to talk to somebody. And I talked to a
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: lot of people, right, you know, you would think I'm
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: going into my eighth year in radio. I worked in
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: politics and government before that, and in media. I've met
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: a lot of people along the way. I was a
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: associate producer for The Great One Mark Levince. I met
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: a lot of people through that position, and I've interviewed
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: a lot of great people. I've interviewed President Trump and
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: doctor phil and the rock band, Leonard Skinnyard, the Tiger
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: King from Jail by the Way, Stephen A. Smith, just
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: a lot of really good people. But one of the
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: people that I interviewed, and I like to interview him
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: often because he's so up to speed on what's going on,
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: is General Blaine Holt. General Holt is a wealth of information.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: He's an unapologetic patriot of this country, and I'm glad
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: to have him on the line right now.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: General Holt.
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: Welcome back, sir, Happy new year, and thanks for that
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: build up.
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: But I am so honored to be on with you today.
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: It's wow, there's so much going on.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there really is. And you know, I'm looking at
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: what's going on in Tehran. I saw and maybe after
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: we talk about Tehran will touch on the the the
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: negotiator for President putin weighing in and trolling Mamdani on Twitter.
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, I've never seen such a thing. And just
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: so many things that are going on. But let's start
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: on what's going on in Iran. I see the President
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: going back and forth with the Iranians talk to me.
• 37:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: So you know, if you recall back when we did
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: the B two strike and limited their ability to make
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: nuclear weapons or their development, you know, we said.
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: Back then that.
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: This is probably planting the seeds of revolution that will
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: come to full bloom one day. And that's exactly what happened.
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: They got organized and they put together what you now
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: see before you, and they have every reason to the
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: police state there with the mullas has only gotten more pressive.
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: Hyperinflation at seven hundred percent, no water, no food, shopkeepers
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: can't they have nothing to sell. And when you have
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: nothing left to lose, what do you do? You take
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: to the streets. And everybody in the pundits rich have
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: been saying, oh, this has happened so many times, it's
• 38:16
  Speaker 7: another flash in the pan. I knew this was different
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: because of the desperate conditions there and the fact that
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: so many people are just risking it all for this.
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: Millions now fifty cities, five of them now captured by revolutionaries,
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: some cases where the secret police or the IRGC is
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: now siding with the actual revolutionaries themselves. This is freedom's
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: fight right here. They're getting a little help. There's some
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: clandestine help on the ground, but this is an amazing
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: time for Auran.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: Listen, General Holt, I always value your opinion, but I'll
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: tell you I always use my common sense approach. And
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you this after looking at what I saw
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: during the Obama years, going back eleven years now. Might
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: on square Ukraine when you start seeing people with these
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: masks on, that's my opinion.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: These are not regular people, right.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: They may follow the lead, they might cover their face, like, oh,
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: that guy's covering his face, I'm going to cover my
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: face too, But when you see these guys that are
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: literally professional destabilizers of governments, these are clandestine people working
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: for who I don't know. Maybe they work for the Americans,
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: maybe they work for some other partner. But they're there
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: to throw something over. And we saw it in Ukraine,
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: and I see the markings of that all over Iran.
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: And you're right when you say this one looks different.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: It does. It looks very different. It looks like it's
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: really going to happen. Yeah.
• 39:43
  Speaker 7: Another you know, to your point, another real telltale sign
• 39:47
  Speaker 7: that they're getting some help, that there are some clandestine
• 39:50
  Speaker 7: thumbs on the scale here is is they've got Internet
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: you can go all over social media and see right
• 39:58
  Speaker 7: time feeds of what's happening. And the first thing the
• 40:01
  Speaker 7: Malas do when anything like this happens is they shut
• 40:04
  Speaker 7: down all communications. And more importantly, it's not just that
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: we can look in. It's also important that they can
• 40:10
  Speaker 7: all talk to each other and coordinate their activities. So look,
• 40:14
  Speaker 7: I'm not one for color revolutions. I don't want to
• 40:16
  Speaker 7: see the United States, or Israel for that matter, in
• 40:19
  Speaker 7: the regime change business never works out for us. But
• 40:24
  Speaker 7: if you were to pick a group of people that
• 40:26
  Speaker 7: have been kept down for so long and just murdered
• 40:29
  Speaker 7: by their own government, this would be the people. And honestly,
• 40:32
  Speaker 7: the Iranian people are so warm and friendly, especially towards Americans,
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: and they're rejoining the government or the world community would
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: be a boon to all of us. They have so
• 40:42
  Speaker 7: much to contribute. What I don't think we should do
• 40:45
  Speaker 7: is there's been so much talk about putting Raisa Palavi
• 40:48
  Speaker 7: back in as the new Shaw, the new king. Let
• 40:50
  Speaker 7: the Iranians figure that out. Let them have self determination
• 40:53
  Speaker 7: about what will be like. Yeah, that's the Shaw sign.
• 40:57
  Speaker 7: He's the crown Prince. And and and my advice to
• 41:01
  Speaker 7: the president would be, don't make that happen. Just let
• 41:05
  Speaker 7: let Aron decide who's going to lead them.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: Now, and there's another group out there, led here Stateside
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: by the whistleblower for the Iranian nuke program, Ali Raza
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: Jafarza Day, who promotes.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: Miriam.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: I forget her last name. But are you familiar with
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: that group and what do you think of them and
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: their platform?
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: I am, And look, I think that there's a lot
• 41:32
  Speaker 7: of good stuff going on there. Miriam is really good.
• 41:37
  Speaker 7: They could play into what this looks like.
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: And here's the thing.
• 41:41
  Speaker 7: I do have very good friends who are Iranian, very
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: high net worth friends here made it well in business
• 41:49
  Speaker 7: here in the United States. Look, they all want to
• 41:51
  Speaker 7: help in any way, shape or form that they can,
• 41:53
  Speaker 7: much the way the Cuban American community does down in
• 41:56
  Speaker 7: Miami and around Florida for the eventual liberation of Cuba.
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: But but again, the where I think we play a
• 42:04
  Speaker 7: role is let's help. Let's help the Iranians where we
• 42:07
  Speaker 7: can in securing their freedom without us putting outright forces
• 42:12
  Speaker 7: on the ground.
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: But but then let let's let self governance take over
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: and not impose a solution on a people that has
• 42:20
  Speaker 7: had too many solutions imposed on them.
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes sense, and I agree with that.
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: I think just we've seen in the past when, like
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: you said, when we've been involved in that business, which
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna dare say, and again I'm speaking out of school,
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: I know, but I would say, I think we've always
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: been in that business.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: Just depends on how far involved we get.
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: But we did it in Iraq, and when we did
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: it in Iraq, it birthed ISIS and a lot of
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: a lot of problems over the next two decades. So
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: I think learning from history, we look at that and
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: we say, all right, let's not do that again. Right,
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: let's not have that same problem. You got to make
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: sure you if you're going to topple the malas, you've
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: got to make sure that the next person isn't as
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: bad and can't get as bad as quickly, and is
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: capable of holding it down.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: How do you do that if you're not already in
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: bed so to speak with somebody?
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: True, that's true.
• 43:16
  Speaker 7: You know, there's a there's a fine line between facilitation
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: and friendship and then outright clandestine color revolutions, and the
• 43:26
  Speaker 7: United States has a horrible track record at this the
• 43:29
  Speaker 7: ever since the Central Intelligence Agency was formed. Go into
• 43:33
  Speaker 7: the fifties, go into South America, look it right on
• 43:36
  Speaker 7: into the eighties with Nicaragua, Iron Contra of all things,
• 43:42
  Speaker 7: and what you're going to find as a pattern where
• 43:44
  Speaker 7: were consistently picking the wrong guy. Go to Vietnam, and look,
• 43:48
  Speaker 7: we picked Deem, We could have picked Ho Chi Minh.
• 43:51
  Speaker 7: We didn't like his price tag. He wasn't really a
• 43:52
  Speaker 7: communist as it turns out, he was just looking for
• 43:55
  Speaker 7: the best possible deal, and the one we picked was wrong,
• 43:59
  Speaker 7: and we just have to get out of that business.
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: And hey, there's great guidance here. It comes straight from
• 44:04
  Speaker 7: George Washington himself in staying out of dreaded alliances and
• 44:08
  Speaker 7: foreign entanglements.
• 44:09
  Speaker 6: And this is what he meant.
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, And I'm with you, right,
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: So I'm with you. I think, you know, we don't
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: want to be the guy that picks the guy. But
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: at the same time, you don't want to create a
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: vacuum and then have the next problem on your hand, right,
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: because you know the jury is out, as you and
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: I have spoken before, and I'm going to kind of
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: go all over the place here. But just to make
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: my point, I don't know his name anymore, forgiveness. This
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: is really my own ignorance. Al Janni or al Sharah.
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: He's the same guy, yeah, I don't I don't know
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: if he's I don't believe he's a good guy. I
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: just believe he's playing nice right now because of a
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: Machiavellian principle that tells us the enemy of my enemy
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: is my friend.
• 44:49
  Speaker 7: Right, that's exactly right. And he's a creation of Airdowan.
• 44:53
  Speaker 7: And rather than holding the Turkish accountable for the Islamist
• 44:57
  Speaker 7: invasion of Europe and wondering why Erdowan still even got
• 45:01
  Speaker 7: a NATO membership, we allow him to take al Qaeda guy.
• 45:05
  Speaker 7: And they were training al Qaeda folks for this army
• 45:08
  Speaker 7: that would go in and Airediwan just wanted to go
• 45:10
  Speaker 7: kill Kurds. He doesn't really care about the stability of
• 45:13
  Speaker 7: the region, the region at all. And now it's backfiring
• 45:16
  Speaker 7: on him because the al Jilani's friends who have trained
• 45:21
  Speaker 7: in the Turkish armed forces are now infiltrating that body
• 45:25
  Speaker 7: and maybe threatening the power structure in Turkey soon. And
• 45:29
  Speaker 7: so you know, I think facilitation is a better way
• 45:32
  Speaker 7: to go so let's put it this way. Our intel
• 45:35
  Speaker 7: people on the ground in Iran or Masades, intel people
• 45:38
  Speaker 7: they know who would get leadership structure is of these revolutionaries.
• 45:41
  Speaker 7: They should meet with them and say, Okay, look, we're
• 45:44
  Speaker 7: glad things are going so well for you. It looks
• 45:45
  Speaker 7: like you're on the right track. When we get through
• 45:48
  Speaker 7: with this phase, how can we help. How would you
• 45:51
  Speaker 7: like us to help If you're the ones that secured
• 45:54
  Speaker 7: the piece for your freedom for your countrymen, how do
• 45:57
  Speaker 7: we put an arm around you and bring you into
• 46:00
  Speaker 7: the world commons. And it's when you ask questions. I
• 46:03
  Speaker 7: saw this in Kyrgyzstan when I was when I was
• 46:05
  Speaker 7: there and I had to felt pick an interim leader.
• 46:07
  Speaker 6: When you ask.
• 46:08
  Speaker 7: Questions instead of making demands, you do so much better.
• 46:11
  Speaker 7: And especially if you have a basis in their language
• 46:14
  Speaker 7: and culture. And the Persians have a very rich language
• 46:17
  Speaker 7: and culture. And it is not Islamic extremism.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's for sure. We've seen that time and again. Amigos.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: We are on with General Blaine Holt.
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: He is a former Deputy Representative to NATO for the
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: United States, retired Air Force general and contributor to Newsmax
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: Television and just very knowledgeable on these things, and in general,
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: I want we talked about a number of things, and
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: you know, oftentimes when we talk about geopolitics and international affairs,
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: they are interrelated, right, not always interdependent, but interrelated. And
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: while we see this thing happening with Iran, and I
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: tend to be somewhat pragmatic, like you, I feel on
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: these things.
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: You know, I don't like tariffs, but I think Trump
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: uses them.
• 47:03
  Speaker 8: Well.
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: I don't like regime change, but I think we need
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: it in Iran.
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: I don't like regime change, but I think we need
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: it in Venezuela as well, and potentially in Cuba.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: But we don't have to do it.
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: My people tell me, my people, which you're part of
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: my people, but my sources in Cuba tell me that
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: if they they will take it as a green light.
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: If the United States arrests Maduro the way we arrested Noriega,
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: they will overtake Cuba.
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: Do you think that's true.
• 47:37
  Speaker 7: I'm hearing the exact same thing, rich from folks that
• 47:39
  Speaker 7: I talked to, And again it's it's kind of the
• 47:43
  Speaker 7: art of the strategy. We know the outcome that would
• 47:46
  Speaker 7: be very helpful here and especially in making all these
• 47:50
  Speaker 7: things happen. Who doesn't want to see a free Cuba.
• 47:53
  Speaker 7: I mean, what an incredible achievement that would be for
• 47:56
  Speaker 7: President Trump.
• 47:58
  Speaker 6: But in the strategy piece, what.
• 48:00
  Speaker 7: What I think should be considered is keep the pressure
• 48:03
  Speaker 7: on the cartels, keep the cost imposition high, and let
• 48:06
  Speaker 7: Maduro fall on his own. The byproduct will be Maduro
• 48:10
  Speaker 7: is going to be gone one way or another, because
• 48:12
  Speaker 7: pretty soon the people around him will go. You know,
• 48:14
  Speaker 7: that guy's worth fifty million dollars if we just turn
• 48:16
  Speaker 7: him over to the United States.
• 48:19
  Speaker 6: It's going to get that way.
• 48:20
  Speaker 7: And they're already because of the costs that President Trump
• 48:22
  Speaker 7: has put on them in this cartel war, they're already
• 48:25
  Speaker 7: turning on each other. They're providing us with very valuable
• 48:28
  Speaker 7: intelligence on how to even do more. And so I
• 48:31
  Speaker 7: think for our friends in Cuba, this day is coming.
• 48:34
  Speaker 7: Maduro's He's not long for that seat he's in. He
• 48:38
  Speaker 7: won't be staying entrenched. But this is not a war
• 48:40
  Speaker 7: about Venezuela. This is a war about the cartels, and
• 48:43
  Speaker 7: that leads to every illicit activity, including money laundering through
• 48:47
  Speaker 7: private shadow bankers, rogue intelligence agencies, crooked and bought off
• 48:50
  Speaker 7: politicians all around the planet, from Beijing to Davos.
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: You know, general, I agree with a lot of what
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: you're saying.
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: However, I'm going to say this because I have a
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: different perspective when it comes to Maduro.
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: I look at.
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: Castro, and Castro died right. We were just close in
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: the sixties, with missiles pointed at them. We had our moment.
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: We didn't take it. Bay of Pigs JFK. A lifetime
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: goes by and he dies. He never left. Every communist
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: and this is my admonition to anyone who cares about
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: what I have to say. The Communists will wait as
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: long as it takes, if they only respond to strength,
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: and if we continue to tell Maduro, oh, well, you
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: know we're gonna wait and see. He's just gonna figure
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: out more ways to turn around and say, told you
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: Trump was a chump, told you the Americans were afraid.
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: They can't touch us. They'll never set foot on his ground.
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: They're afraid of me, and they will only embolden him
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: in the eyes of his followers.
• 49:54
  Speaker 7: I agree with you. I'm gonna put a new layer
• 49:56
  Speaker 7: on this. And why this time, when we were working
• 50:02
  Speaker 7: against Castro, we weren't using fifth generation warfare techniques, meaning
• 50:06
  Speaker 7: indirect means Scott Descent is doing more than our United
• 50:11
  Speaker 7: States Navy is doing in splashing drug boats. Scott Descent
• 50:15
  Speaker 7: is working behind the scenes. We're doing all kinds of
• 50:19
  Speaker 7: clandestine things that nobody can see. And and again, the
• 50:23
  Speaker 7: the art is not in taking out Madua. We can
• 50:25
  Speaker 7: do that at the flip of a switch. Sure it's
• 50:27
  Speaker 7: not that sacred task, but but it's it's okay now
• 50:31
  Speaker 7: that we know we can go get him and take
• 50:33
  Speaker 7: him out, what are what are the second and third
• 50:35
  Speaker 7: order effects that we want to see happen from that
• 50:37
  Speaker 7: removal if we can make the removal happen in a
• 50:40
  Speaker 7: certain way.
• 50:41
  Speaker 6: So I would say Maduro is on the hook, so
• 50:45
  Speaker 6: to speak, if we were fishing.
• 50:47
  Speaker 7: Yeah, And it's how you pull him in the boat
• 50:49
  Speaker 7: that's important. And and I and again, it's a global problem,
• 50:53
  Speaker 7: it's not it's not just a regional problem.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: And I sure, I agree, I'm.
• 50:56
  Speaker 7: Awfully optimistic about how this one's going to close out.
• 50:59
  Speaker 7: But I don't see him being able to pull a
• 51:00
  Speaker 7: castro at all.
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: All right, Look, I stand encouraged by what I'm hearing.
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: I remain though, that if if we don't go and
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: handcuff this guy like we did before. I hope that
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: this strategy works. I just I look at it like this.
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: Venezuela is oil rich. So every time he puts a
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: boat out there with a million barrels of whatever he's got,
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: he's sitting on more than most people.
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: So what does he care?
• 51:25
  Speaker 6: That's right, Oh, he doesn't.
• 51:27
  Speaker 7: And the good news is every time he makes a
• 51:32
  Speaker 7: phone call or screams into his computer that the United
• 51:35
  Speaker 7: States is coming after him, he's doing it with one
• 51:37
  Speaker 7: of the really truest bad guys in this world, sitting
• 51:40
  Speaker 7: at the City of London or at Davos.
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm. But here's the thing.
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: When when it comes down to all of this happening,
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: I think ultimately Maduro will Will let's say he finally
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: has to succumb. What does he do, right, get killed
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: by the cartels or work with the America. He's gonna
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: work with the Americans. Set a screaming at the computer.
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: He's gonna scream at the computer. Now he's gonna tell Trump, Trump,
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: I got a deal for you. I'll give everybody's name.
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: I need this.
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: I need you to do what you did for El
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: Chapl's family help me out right, and he's gonna get away.
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: And that's the part I think that if if we
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: don't show strength to remove him, I don't think the
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: chain reaction happens in Cuba and other countries stand kind
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: of warned, like maybe uh correcting their behavior in Colombia, right.
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: I think if we show a little strength in Venezuela,
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: the Colombia say damn, these guys are on our butt.
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: You know, we better slow it down. Well maybe that's
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: just my own naivete general No, no.
• 52:39
  Speaker 6: No, no, I couldn't agree with you more.
• 52:40
  Speaker 7: And that's what I'm saying is how does he exit?
• 52:43
  Speaker 7: And I think there will be a theatrical exit for
• 52:46
  Speaker 7: him that sends a deterrent message to the rest of
• 52:48
  Speaker 7: the region.
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: Has to be there to walk away with a deal.
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: It's not good.
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: It's not good for everybody else because then they're all
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: going to say, oh, it's the cost of doing business.
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: They'll work with us, that's what's the businessman. He's going
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  Speaker 4: to make a deal and at some point they have
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  Speaker 4: to go. Trump's a madman and he'll eliminate our whole
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  Speaker 4: country if we don't play ball.
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  Speaker 3: It has to be that way all right, by being took.
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  Speaker 7: I agree, No, you're not being too hawkis. But but
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  Speaker 7: there's an elegance in the in the how you do
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  Speaker 7: the strike to get the maximum benefit out of it,
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  Speaker 7: and we're going to get that.
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  Speaker 3: I like what I'm hearing now, General, oh man, it's
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: time to end shoot. I had so much more to
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  Speaker 3: go and even talk about Russia.
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  Speaker 6: Well, let's do it again.
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  Speaker 4: We will, General Blainholt. Let everybody know how they can
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  Speaker 4: find you. Listen to your podcast and all that.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you so much. Come visit me at Dangerous Intellectuals
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  Speaker 7: dot com, Listen to my weekly podcast on Mondays, and
• 53:46
  Speaker 7: visit me at newsmax dot com where you can read
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  Speaker 7: my articles at the Irascible Disruptor. I write once a
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  Speaker 7: week there on the Insider's page and it's always my
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  Speaker 7: honor and pleasure.
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  Speaker 3: And Happy New Year to you, my brother, Thank you, brother,
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  Speaker 3: God bless you. I apree shot you being here. General.
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  Speaker 4: You're a gentleman of scholar and a patriot, and I
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  Speaker 4: thank you for your time. Thank you you bet and
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  Speaker 4: the rest of my Philly familia. That's tuning into the
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  Speaker 4: Rich Zoe Show with me Rich Valdez sitting in for
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  Speaker 4: the leader of the Zeoli Army. We are gonna come
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  Speaker 4: back more to come straight ahead. Guess what did you
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: know that they could steal your car by putting an
• 54:21
  Speaker 4: antenna outside of your house.
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  Speaker 3: I just learned this. That's crazy.
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: Plus what do we do with these adult kids that
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: say I don't want to talk to my mom and
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: they just stop talking to their mom forever. Well, anyway,
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: we're going to talk about that as well as everything
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: else is going on. Plus your calls. If there's another
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: taker out there, I am game. I'm Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 3: Don't go anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: This is America. This is America. He's making podcasting great again.
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  Speaker 1: This is America with Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 3: All right, I migees, welcome back.
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  Speaker 4: It's Rich Valdez Valdez with an s that Rich Valdez
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  Speaker 4: on all of the social media. And again I did
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: not forget about Zoron Mamdani getting sworn in. I did
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: not forget about Nick Shirley and all the Somalian stuff
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: that happened over in Minnesota. We're gonna get to that
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: straight ahead in the next hour that we do, but
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: I wanted to wrap this one up before we moved
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: on to the other stuff, and I want to tell
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: you we are going to have some pretty exciting guests,
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: like the guy who tackled the task of going head
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: to head with Zoron Mumdani. That's right, Curtis Sliwa. Curtis Sliwa,
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: not all heroes wear capes is going to be joining
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: us with his red beret to talk about the inauguration
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: of Zoron Mumdani. I'm going to tell you a little
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: bit more about my New Year's Eve, very impron two,
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: very last minute trip that I took at like eight
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: or nine o'clock at night into Times Square because my
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: brother had the hookup, got me some VIP straight next
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  Speaker 4: to the stage. I got to see Diana Ross perform
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  Speaker 4: live as well as I think it was a de
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  Speaker 4: la getto.
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  Speaker 3: And who else there was?
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  Speaker 4: Who's a reggaeton artist from Puerto Rico, Mexican ranchero artist
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  Speaker 4: I named Savi xav I.
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  Speaker 3: Who else was there? Some blonde lady. She did a
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  Speaker 3: really good job too. I forget her name, but it
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  Speaker 3: was really good.
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  Speaker 4: And honestly it was cold, but it wasn't you know,
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: with the hat on, a coat on and all the
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: people that were there, you barely could feel any of
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: that cold. So anyway, we'll talk about that more, as
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: well as what happens when your kids don't want to
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: talk to you anymore. Right, you got adult children that
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: are ghosting their parents. We're going to talk about that
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: with Jill Robin Paine, plus Councilman Frank Morano, who just
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: recently awarded me the Pinky Kravitz Award for Excellence in Media.
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: He's going to join us as well. So what a
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: new year it's been already, it's only the second third
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  Speaker 4: day of the year, and we've got a whole lot
• 57:02
  Speaker 4: going on. There are more interviews to come, there's lots
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: more commentary to come. If you're enjoying what you're hearing,
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  Speaker 4: please share this stuff with your friends and family members
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  Speaker 4: that might benefit from it. And of course, in a
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: few days or I should say a few weeks, we're
• 57:15
  Speaker 4: going to be launching our video stream that I think
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: some of you may enjoy. Others I know are very reticent. Right,
• 57:22
  Speaker 4: I got a lot of radio listeners. They're telling me no,
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: but you know, I like the radio.
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: Listen.
• 57:25
  Speaker 4: Everybody loves the radio. The thing is, it's so much
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: easier to listen when you stream the show. And some
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: people like to believe it or not, they look they
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: like to look at my face for radio.
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: Go figure.
• 57:37
  Speaker 4: Anyway, I just wanted to tell you about all of
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: those interviews and different things, conversations that we're having that
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: I think you want to be privy to, and we're
• 57:46
  Speaker 4: going to continue our talks, are going to continue everything
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: that we're doing. And until then, I have to bid
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: you ad and I say start up, Rosima, take care,
• 57:54
  Speaker 4: good night, and God bless you America. And remember you
• 57:57
  Speaker 4: got to stand for something, because if you stand for nothing,
• 57:59
  Speaker 4: you'll all for absolutely anything.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Rich Valdez and this is America, this is
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  Speaker 1: Americas, USA, US